Speakers
Conference Host:
Barbara Hendricks
Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany
Speakers (in alphabetical order):
Bas van Abel
CEO of Fairphone
Leyla Acaroglu
2016 UNEP Champion of the Earth
Sofia Ahlroth
Senior Environmental Economist, World Bank Waves Programme
Aisha Al Abdooli
Chief Innovation Officer and Director of Green Development, Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, United Arab Emirates
Mao Amis
Founding Director of African Centre for a Green Economy
Frank Appel
CEO of Deutsche Post DHL Group
Ignatius Baffuor Awuah
Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ghana
Abdoulaye Balde
Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Senegal
Steve Bass
Senior Associate, International Institute for Environment and Development
Nestor Batio Bassiere
Minister of the Environment Green Economy and Climate Change, Burkina Faso
Christoph Beier
Vice-Chair, Management Board Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
Chairman of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, India
Clara Brandi
Senior Researcher, German Development Institute
Winnie Byanyima
Executive Director of Oxfam International
Francesco La Camera
Director General, Department for Sustainable Development, Environmental Damage, European Union and International Affairs, Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea of Italy
Marc Chardonnens
State Secretary for the Environment, Director of the Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland
Hameda Deedat
Acting Executive Director, NALEDI
Edgar Gutiérrez Espeleta
Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica and President of the UN Environment Assembly
Elsa Galarza
Minister of the Environment, Peru
Torben Gleesborg
Director of Technical and Environmental Administration, City of Copenhagen
Oliver Greenfield
Convener of the Green Economy Coalition
Xia Guang
Director General, Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy, Ministry of Environmental Protection, China
Elliot Harris
Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the UN Environment New York Office
Connie Hedegaard
Chair of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Round Table for Sustainable Development
Virginie Helias
Vice President Global Sustainability of Procter & Gamble
Cameron Hepburn
Professor of environmental economics at the University of Oxford
Jürgen Heraeus
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Heraeus Holding
Daniiar Imanaliev
Deputy Minister of Economy, Kyrgyz Republic
Fatou Janha
Coordinator, TRY Oyster Women's Association
Pedro Jardim
Co-founder of Agora, Coliga, Apoio and Purpose Fund
Bernt Reitan Jenssen
Chief Executive Officer of Ruter, Norway
Ibrahim Usman Jibril
Minister Of State For Environment, Nigeria
Macharia Kamau
Ambassador of the Republic of Kenya
Isabell Kempf
Co-Director, UNDP and UN Environment Poverty-Environment Initiative
Tarek Keskes
Deputy Team Leader, GFA Consulting Group GmbH
Ashok Khosla
Chairman of Development Alternatives Group
Natascha Kooiman
Co-founder of Smaackmakers
Doris Kramer
Head of investment strategies and sustainability at KfW
Pushpam Kumar
Senior Economic Advisor, UN Environment
Norbert Kurilla
State Secretary of the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic
Wolfgang Lehmacher
Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries, World Economic Forum
Martin Lok
Program Manager Natural Capital, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Netherlands
Heila Lotz-Sisitka
SARCHl Chair: Global Change and Social Learning Systems, Rhodes University
Edda Fernández Luiselli
Director General, Primary Sector and Renewable Natural Resources, Ministry of Environmental and Natural Resources, Mexico, Co-chair of the Board of the 10 Year Framework of Programmes
Lars Andreas Lunde
State Secretary, Ministry of Climate and Environment of Norway
Shunsuke Managi
Distinguished Professor of Technology, and Policy and Director of Urban Institute, Kyushu University
Ursula Mathar
Head of Sustainability and Environmental protection, BMW
Shyamal Majumdar
Head of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Cristina Martinez
Senior Specialist Environment and Decent Work at the International Labour Organization
Francisco Javier Mejía
Vice Minister of Labour, Colombia
Dirk Messner
Director, German Development Institute
Oumaima Mhijir
Director Amal Women's Training Center and Moroccan Restaurant, Morocco
Klaus Milke
Chairman of the Board, Germanwatch e.V
Edna Molewa
Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, South Africa
Lucy Muchoki
Chief Executive Officer of the Pan African Agribusiness and Agroindustry Consortium
Alexander Müller
TEEBAgFood Study Leader and former Assistant Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization
Tommy Nederman
Director Sustainable Business at Scandic Hotel
Luis Neves
Chairman, Global e-Sustainability Initiative of the Information and Communication Technology Industry
Ligia Noronha
Director, Economics Division
Andrew Norton
Director of International Institute for Environment and Development
Deidre Penfold
Business Unity South Africa
Lena Pripp-Kovac
Sustainability Manager of Range and Supply, IKEA
Christina Rankel
Senior Copywriter, Jung von Matt
Kate Raworth
Senior Visiting Research Associate and lecturer at Oxford University
Roberto Ridolfi
Director of the European Commission for Sustainable Growth and Development at Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development
Frank Rijsberman
Director-General of the Global Green Growth Institute
Jeffrey Sachs
Director of Earth Institute, Columbia University
Vitou Sam
Cambodian Centre for Study and Development in Agriculture
Uthpala Sankalpani
RECP Expert , National Cleaner ProductionCentre
Kartikeya Sarabhai
Founder and Director of the Centre for Environment Education India
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter
Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety of Germany
Philippe Scholtès
Managing Director, Programme Development and Technical Cooperation, UNIDO
Astrid Schomaker
Director for Strategy at the European Commission's Directorate General for the Environment
Tim Scott
Senior Policy Advisor, Environment, United Nations Development Programme
Nikhil Seth
Executive Director of United Nations Institute for Training and Research
Stephan Sicars
Director of the Department of Environment, UNIDO
Karolina Skog
Minister for the Environment and Energy, Sweden
Robert Smith
Principal, Midsummer Analytics
Samantha Smith
Director, Just Transition Centre
Erik Solheim
Head of UN Environment
Richard Spencer
Head of Sustainability at ICAEW
Cletus I. Springer
Director of the Department of Sustainable Development, Executive Secretariat for Integral Development, Organization of American States
Achim Steiner
Director of Oxford Martin School
Markus Strangmüller
Vice President of Sustainability – Business to Society, Siemens AG
Esther Byer Suckoo
Minister of Labour, Social Security and Human Resource Development, Barbados
Pavan Sukhdev
UN Goodwill Ambassador
Marlehn Thieme
Chair of the German Council for Sustainable Development
Christian Thimann
Group Head of Regulation, Sustainability and Insurance Foresight AXA Group Paris
Kimmo Tiilikainen
Minister of the Agriculture and the Environment, Finland
Batbayar Tserendorj
Vice Minister of Environment and Tourism, Mongolia
Eric Usher
Head of UN Environment Finance Initiative
Scott Vaughan
President and CEO, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Vic van Vuuren
Director, Enterprise Department, International Labour Organization
Jeremy Wates
Secretary General of EEB
Mike Wilson
Executive Director of Sustainable Prosperity
Simon Zadek
Co-Director, UN Environment Inquiry
Moderator
Melinda Crane
Chief Political Correspondent, Deutsche Welle